The desert IS addicting. Wow. Really have to have the frame of mind adjusted for it, then it hits and sticks like glue. I am fortunate to have discovered it earlier rather than later or not at all.
As for the pics, it's amazing what digital photography allows us to capture. If earlier generations had the capabilities we have, just think of the wonderful and terrible images we'd be able to browse. Just think if there were 700 images of Custer's defeat, or 10,000 images of Aztec life. Would it make us want to go to those places? Would it make us want to stay home? Imagine what the earliest visitors to Big Bend might have photographed if that were something they could have done. Of course, I do realize that much of the photographic history of The West that does exist centers around violence and things I'd rather not see, so much of it like a bad wreck everyone is compelled to slow down to view. I'm not trying to make a point or anything here, but these are things that flow through my mind..
So many things yet to do, and the clock does not wait. Glad I stumbled upon this site and a few others, because my life is all the better for it. Now if I could sort out the JKU's death wobble, I'd really have zero worth complaining about..
John
